Shekinah

“Books are filled with human thoughts and feelings. People suffering, people who are sad or happy, laughing with joy. By reading their words and their stories, by experiencing them together, we learn about the hearts and minds of other people besides ourselves. Thanks to books, it’s possible to learn not only about the people around us every day, but people living in totally different worlds.”
― Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

“Even when the world seems to stop, threatening to crumble, and the hour feels dark as the siren rings … it isn’t a crime to feel joy.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“My whole life was measured in summers. Like I don’t really begin living until June, until I’m at that beach, in that house.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“because there’s no joy in it and you cannot convince me otherwise. I can’t comprehend living to work, but then I’m afraid of working just to live.”
― Jessica George, Maame